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Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan
Okay, I disagree. Hathaway was a good energy player who was actually pretty fast (not Rieder fast, but able to get up and down pretty quickly). He was also a great penalty killer, and his absence on the pairing is one of the reasons Jankowski has struggled on the PK this year. Hathaway was also decent at cycling the puck, but no better than Rieder.
Yes, Hathaway delivered the big hit now and then, but it wasn't his sole effectiveness out there. There's a reason he was signed by another team to term and there's also reasons why he's had some success early in the year with Washington.
He was just our of our price range with the Tkachuk cap crunch. A casualty of the cap for sure, but one you have to be willing to replace with guys like Rieder on league minimum contracts. I'm totally okay with how everything worked out. Rieder is a solid replacement for what Hathaway brought.
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Uhm, cycle the puck?
Hustle, hard work, moxie, grit, jam. Dragging your teammates into being emotionally invested in games. 11 goals.
Hathaway was part of the competitive heart beat of the team last year. Reider doesn't replace any of that.
I wouldn't have signed hathaway to a 4 year deal, but Reider brings basically nothing that Hathaway brought last year.